Latin America’s Coronavirus Deaths Now Highest
BRASILIA (Dispatches) -- Latin America and the Caribbean surpassed Europe on Friday to become the region with the most COVID-19 deaths, according to an AFP count based on official data.
The world’s worst-hit region has recorded 213,120 fatal cases, 460 more than Europe, according to the tally registered at 1700 GMT.
Over the last week, 44 percent of global deaths from COVID-19 — 18,300 out of 41,500 — happened in the region.
Latin America is also the region with the largest number of infections in the world with 5.3 million. More than half, some 2.9 million, are in Brazil, which has also recorded 98,500 deaths among its 212 million people.
Only the United States has been worse hit. The second worst-affected country in Latin America, Mexico, passed 50,000 deaths on Thursday and has registered more than 460,000 cases, according to official figures.
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the U.S. is closing in on 5 million. The U.S. reported more than 58,000 new coronavirus cases Friday, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
Globally, the total number of confirmed cases is nearly 19.4 million, and more than 721,000 dead, including more than 161,000 in the U.S.
Health experts in the United States have forecast that nearly 300,000 Americans could be dead from the flu-like pathogen by December.
India on Friday reported a record daily jump in coronavirus infections, taking its total confirmed cases to more than two million. India’s Health Ministry registered more than 62,500 new cases and nearly 900 new deaths, taking its fatality rate to over 41, 500.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government imposed one of the world’s strictest lockdowns in late March.
Health officials in India said the surges are mostly related to rural areas, pointing the finger of blame at monsoon floods for hindering efforts to fight the pandemic.
The world’s worst-hit region has recorded 213,120 fatal cases, 460 more than Europe, according to the tally registered at 1700 GMT.
Over the last week, 44 percent of global deaths from COVID-19 — 18,300 out of 41,500 — happened in the region.
Latin America is also the region with the largest number of infections in the world with 5.3 million. More than half, some 2.9 million, are in Brazil, which has also recorded 98,500 deaths among its 212 million people.
Only the United States has been worse hit. The second worst-affected country in Latin America, Mexico, passed 50,000 deaths on Thursday and has registered more than 460,000 cases, according to official figures.
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the U.S. is closing in on 5 million. The U.S. reported more than 58,000 new coronavirus cases Friday, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
Globally, the total number of confirmed cases is nearly 19.4 million, and more than 721,000 dead, including more than 161,000 in the U.S.
Health experts in the United States have forecast that nearly 300,000 Americans could be dead from the flu-like pathogen by December.
India on Friday reported a record daily jump in coronavirus infections, taking its total confirmed cases to more than two million. India’s Health Ministry registered more than 62,500 new cases and nearly 900 new deaths, taking its fatality rate to over 41, 500.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government imposed one of the world’s strictest lockdowns in late March.
Health officials in India said the surges are mostly related to rural areas, pointing the finger of blame at monsoon floods for hindering efforts to fight the pandemic.